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throt⋅tle

  [throt-l] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
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–noun
1. Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
2. throttle valve.
3. the throat, gullet, or windpipe, as of a horse.
–verb (used with object)
4. to stop the breath of by compressing the throat; strangle.
5. to choke or suffocate in any way.
6. to compress by fastening something tightly around.
7. to silence or check as if by choking: His message was throttled by censorship.
8. Machinery.
a. to obstruct or check the flow of (a fluid), as to control the speed of an engine.
b. to reduce the pressure of (a fluid) by passing it from a smaller area to a larger one.
—Idiom
9. at full throttle, at maximum speed.
Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) ME throtelen, freq. of throten to cut the throat of (someone), strangle, deriv. of throat; (n.) prob. dim. of ME throte throat; cf. G Drossel

Related forms:
throttler, noun
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Word Origin & History

throttle  (v.)
"strangle to death," c.1400, probably from M.E. throte "throat" (see throat). The noun, in the mechanical sense, is first recorded 1870s, from throttle-valve (1824), but was used earlier as a synonym for "throat" (1547); it appears to be an independent formation, not derived from the verb.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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